Humpty Doo gardener baffled after forces from above kill trees
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| Mike Mewett wants to know what killed his trees in Humpty Doo. PICTURE: Elise Derwin |
It was just under a week ago when Mike Mewett first noticed patches of leaves on trees on a roughly 100m section of the property were dropping.
“It’s so strange, it’s not the tree that’s dying, it’s like there’s something been dropped on it from above,” he said.
“To me that’s the only logical explanation, unless we’ve got aliens around here.”
The NT News visited Mr Mewett’s property and witnessed the triangular shaped section of trees where parts of a tree’s branch had completely died while other leaves on the branch flourished.
Mr Mewett, an avid gardener, said he’d never encountered anything like it.
“We sometimes see a light aircraft flying in the area ... maybe it dumped some fuel,” he said.
Mr Mewett’s Humpty Doo Property is less than a kilometre from where Brisbane UFO hunter Erik Black spotted a “thing” floating above his head in 2010.
Mr Black described the UFO as “shaped like a hamburger, with black dots” and “weird-looking headlights”.
Several recent sightings of similar, round orbs hovering silently above Humpty Doo have also been reported to the NT News.
A local arborist saidthat without inspecting the damage on Mr Mewett’s property, it was hard to say what the cause was, but said it definitely didn’t sound like a virus.
“Sometimes lightning strikes can cause damage like that but if it spans 100m it wouldn’t be a lightning strike, plus we haven’t had any lightening,” he said.
“It could be a reaction to a chemical ... it certainly does sound strange.”
The rural area is also known for it’s Yowie activity, but a local Yowie expert, who asked not to be named, said there was "no way” the damage on Mr Mewett’s property could be put down to those creatures.
“It’s far more likely to be a UFO than a Yowie,” he said
